Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters - Hardcover

Stone, Deborah

 
9781631495922: Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1631495925 ISBN 13: 9781631495922
Verlag: LIVERIGHT PUB CORP, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

And yet, in this age of big data and metric mania, numbers shape almost every facet of our lives: whether we get hired, fired, or promoted; whether we get into college or out of prison; how our opinions are gathered and portrayed to politicians; or how government designs health and safety regulations. In warm and playful prose, Counting explores what happens when we measure nebulous notions like merit, race, poverty, pain, or productivity.When so much rides on numbers, they can become instruments of social welfare, justice, and democracy—or not. The citizens of Flint, Michigan, for instance, used numbers to prove how their household water got contaminated and to force their government to take remedial action. In stark contrast, the Founding Fathers finessed an intractable conflict by counting each slave as three-fifths of a person in the national census. They set a terrible precedent for today’s politicians who claim to solve moral and political dilemmas with arithmetic.Counting

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Deborah Stone is a renowned scholar who has taught at Brandeis, MIT, and other universities around the world. Her award-winning book Policy Paradox has captivated readers through three decades, four editions, and six translations--but who's counting? She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
LIVERIGHT PUB CORP
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1631495925
ISBN 13 
9781631495922
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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